According to ancient scholars such as Quintus Ennius (c. 239-169 BCE), Lucius Cincius Alimentus (flourished c. 200 BCE) and Livy (59 BCE-17 CE), their...
This painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) depicts Bishop Praetextatus of Rouen (r. 544-586) on his deathbed after the clergyman was attacked by an assailant...
Halfdan Egedius (c. 1877-1899), a Norwegian artist, illustrated this scene for an 1899 edition of the Heimskringla, an ambitious text by the medieval historian...
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1314-1400)
"Think! We are prisoners and shall always be.
Fortune has given us this adversity,
Some wicked planetary dispensation,
Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation
Has...
The curious scene shown above can be found in the 12th-century Skylitzes Matritensis manuscript of the Synopsis Historion, written by John Skylitzes (or Ioannes...
This painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) depicts Bishop Praetextatus of Rouen (r. 544-586) on his deathbed after the clergyman was attacked by an assailant...
Halfdan Egedius (c. 1877-1899), a Norwegian artist, illustrated this scene for an 1899 edition of the Heimskringla, an ambitious text by the medieval historian...
The curious scene shown above can be found in the 12th-century Skylitzes Matritensis manuscript of the Synopsis Historion, written by John Skylitzes (or Ioannes...
This painting, created in 1892 by the Austrian artist, Franz von Matsch (c. 1861-1942), depicts an ignoble scene of Achilles from the legendary Trojan...
Thucydides (c. 460-400 BCE)
"He who thinks of his own pleasures and shrinks from fighting is very likely, because of his irresolution, to lose those...
According to ancient scholars such as Quintus Ennius (c. 239-169 BCE), Lucius Cincius Alimentus (flourished c. 200 BCE) and Livy (59 BCE-17 CE), their...
Thucydides (c. 460-400 BCE) was an Athenian general and historian who lived through the Peloponnesian War (c. 431-404 BCE) between Athens and Sparta. He...
Hesiod (flourished c. 8th century BCE)
"If your spirit in your breast yearns for riches, do as follows, and work, work upon work."
From Hesiod’s Works and...
This painting, created in 1892 by the Austrian artist, Franz von Matsch (c. 1861-1942), depicts an ignoble scene of Achilles from the legendary Trojan...
Thucydides (c. 460-400 BCE)
"He who thinks of his own pleasures and shrinks from fighting is very likely, because of his irresolution, to lose those...
In the triumphal scene above, painted by the French artist Georges Rochegrosse (c. 1859–1938), Athenian and Plataean warriors energetically charge against their foes at...
According to ancient scholars such as Quintus Ennius (c. 239-169 BCE), Lucius Cincius Alimentus (flourished c. 200 BCE) and Livy (59 BCE-17 CE), their...
The scene above, painted by the French artist Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), depicts a story from the folkloric history of the ancient kingdom of Rome....
Josephus (c. 1st century)
"Diligence in a historian is not simply a matter of rearranging the overall scheme and detailed order of someone else's work,...
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1314-1400)
"Think! We are prisoners and shall always be.
Fortune has given us this adversity,
Some wicked planetary dispensation,
Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation
Has...
This illustration, created by James William Edmund Doyle (1822–1892), depicts an event from the life of Saint Augustine of Canterbury. Sent by Pope Gregory...
According to ancient scholars such as Quintus Ennius (c. 239-169 BCE), Lucius Cincius Alimentus (flourished c. 200 BCE) and Livy (59 BCE-17 CE), their...
This painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) depicts Bishop Praetextatus of Rouen (r. 544-586) on his deathbed after the clergyman was attacked by an assailant...
Hesiod (flourished c. 8th century BCE)
"If your spirit in your breast yearns for riches, do as follows, and work, work upon work."
From Hesiod’s Works and...
Halfdan Egedius (c. 1877-1899), a Norwegian artist, illustrated this scene for an 1899 edition of the Heimskringla, an ambitious text by the medieval historian...
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1314-1400)
"Think! We are prisoners and shall always be.
Fortune has given us this adversity,
Some wicked planetary dispensation,
Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation
Has...
The curious scene shown above can be found in the 12th-century Skylitzes Matritensis manuscript of the Synopsis Historion, written by John Skylitzes (or Ioannes...
Virgil (c. 70-19 BCE)
"Since Fortune's got the upper hand,
let's follow her where she calls and change course."
From The Aeneid (Book V) by Virgil, translated...
